Man critically hurt after being hit by cars on I-5

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER STAFF

Published 10:00 pm, Thursday, September 26, 2002

A man is in critical condition in Harborview Medical Center with head injuries and pelvic fractures after being hit by two northbound cars on Interstate 5 near the Northeast 45th Street exit late Wednesday night.

Trooper Monica Hunter, spokeswoman for the Washington State Patrol, said the man, in his late teens or early 20s, was in a 1986 blue Ford Crown Victoria with three others when their car clipped two others on the Northeast 45th Street ramp entering southbound I-5.

The driver and passenger of the Ford then left the car, locking the doors and taking the keys with them. They jumped over the barrier onto the northbound lane of I-5, where one of them, possibly the driver, was hit by two cars.

Hunter said the vehicle isn't stolen, but that the name on the bill of sale is not the same as the name on the car's registration. And neither name matches the description of the unidentified injured man at Harborview.